BAWDRY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Bawdry

... put into the reckoning too, and is the dearest parcel in it. No citizen's wife is demurer than she at the first greeting, nor draws in her mouth with a chaster simper; but you may be more familiar without distaste, and she does not startle at bawdry. She is the confusion of a pottle of sack more than would have been spent elsewhere, and her little jugs are accepted to have her kiss excuse them. She may be an honest woman, but is not believed ...

— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle